Critics have accused Wiltshire Police of denigrating Sir Edward’s reputation by launching a witch-hunt against him
Edward Heath’s former staff have been asked whether the late Prime Minister ever smuggled boys in and out of Downing Street, according to reports.
An inquiry into child sex abuse committed by the Tory leader is understood to have examined whether he may have brought kids into Number 10.
Former colleagues of Heath’s have expressed their concerns whether it is £1.5 million well spent on the inquiry.
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster, Heath’s principal private secretary, told The Times: ‘If there is one place where slipping in and out is not easy, it is No 10 Downing Street.’
Lord Armstrong claimed Wiltshire Police were on a ‘fishing expedition’ aimed at denigrating Sir Edward.
The forced are now prepping to released a redacted summary of its two-year investigation into the former PM.
Edward Heath’s former staff have been asked whether the late Prime Minister ever smuggled boys in and out of Downing Street, according to reports
Police are expected to say they have collected enough evidence to question Heath had he been alive, according to reports.
The case has been controversial as it relates top Scotland Yard’s Operation Midland, which has already had several high-profile people wrongly accused by an alleged fantasist. A man known only as Nick T has accused the former PM.
The Crown Prosecution Service are now weighing up whether to charge Nick T for perverting the course of justice after the claim which triggered the national inquiry into Heath was dismissed as groundless.
The IPCC slapped down a former officer’s allegations that a brothel owner’s criminal trial was dropped after she threatened to go public with allegations that Heath was a paedophile in the mid-1990s.
That prompted a high-ranking Wiltshire police officer to stand outside Heath’s home to urge victims not to ‘suffer in silence’.
Mike Veale, Wiltshire Police’s chief constable, is thought to have privately admitted it was a mistake to appeal for ‘victims’ outside his home. Critics have accused Wiltshire Police of denigrating Sir Edward’s reputation by launching a witch-hunt against him.
Mr Veale has also been criticised for being in personal email contact with a campaigner who was jailed for harassing people he falsely accused of paedophilia.
Lincoln Seligman, Sir Edward’s godson, said it was time Mr Veale made a public apology for the appeal.
It was dropped in 1994 due to lack of evidence. Other claims say Heath abused boys on his yacht, yet they were slapped down by his navigator.
Ted Heath by his home in Salisbury, who was Prime Minister between 1970 and 1974,